TERM 3

WEEK 3

27th JULY

2016

Dear Parents,

Recently I had a first-hand experience of the dangers of the internet for children. The

scary part of this incident was how innocently it commenced and how quickly it escalated

and the threat appeared.

My son Jack had heard from a few of his friends at school about a free game that he could

download on his iPad called Tank Io. We looked it up together and it appeared more than

ok for a child of eight years old. Essentially it was shapes that were meant to be the

tanks undertaking a challenging course and trying to avoid each other.

I was sitting next to Jack when he as playing and keeping an eye on what he was up to.

After about two minutes of the game other names started appearing on the side of the

screen and it was obvious now that this game was linked on the net and he was playing

against people from all over the world. Within seconds he said to me; “Hey Dad, what

does stark naked mean?”

Straight away alarm bells rang and further investigation uncovered that ‘Stark Naked’ had

his own world in the game and he was inviting Jack to join. Immediately we shut the

game down and deleted the app.

Even with all of the Cybersafety, internet awareness, student safety etc. training that I

have done over the years this episode still stunned me. How quickly what appeared to be

a safe child’s game changed into a volatile area was unnerving. Upon reflection it stands

to reason that people with these disgusting ulterior motives would spend their time within

these children’s games as that is their preying ground.

I urge you to always be aware of your child’s internet use and talk to them about the

dangers that are out there within the cyber world. It was an opportunity for us to use this

concrete example to reinforce with Jack why we are so vigilant with his internet use. The

sad side effect is that Jack lost some of his innocence, however, he has a better

understanding now of the some of the dangers that unfortunately can lurk in our world

and how quickly they can appear. The Government provides great resources to help

parents within this area, it is as easy as Googling ‘parent cybersafety tips’. I encourage

you to take a look and inform yourselves.

A big thanks to Liz Jones, Kathryn Pepper and the whole staff for the wonderful job they

did leading the school in my absence over the first two weeks of the term. It was

reassuring to know that the school was in such capable hands whilst I was away. The

staff have informed me that it has been a great start and we are all very excited about the

prospect of moving into the first of our new learning spaces in a few weeks time.

Have you got any questions about the school? Would you like some more information

about the building program and other happenings at Trinity? Liz Jones and I invite you to

come along and share a coffee with us and have a chat on Thursday the 4th of August, at

8.45am in the new Library.

Regards,

Simon Dell’Oro

Principal

FRIDAY

29th JULY

NO MASS

SORRY

SERVICE

Grade 2MF

ASSEMBLY

2.30

Year 1

FRIDAY

5th AUGUST

LITURGY 9am

Foundation

( in Joyce

Building)

SORRY

SERVICE

Grades 1B and

3S

ASSEMBLY

2.30

Year 2

TRINITY CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

PRINCIPAL — Mr Simon Dell’Oro

103-129 Oakgrove Drive, Narre Warren South 3805

Email: info@trinitynarre.catholic.edu.au

Web: www.trinitynarre.catholic.edu.au

Phone: 03 9704 1970 Fax: 03 9704 1780

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY Please note the following School Closure & Student Free Day

MONDAY 15th AUGUST 2016

2016 SCHOOL FEES

TERM 3 STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN SENT OUT

Dear Parents

Fees for Term 3 will be $425.00, to be paid by the 15th August 2016. If you have not received your

Statement please contact the Office.

Payments can be made by Cash, BPay, Cheque and EFTPOS. Payments can be made in instalments. Direct

Debit is available and forms are available from the office.

School Fees for 2016

Annual fees are $1750 (this includes the $200 Capital Levy and the $50 ICT Levy). This is per family.

Term fees will be: Term 1 $475 (includes the ICT Levy)

Term 2, 3 and 4: $425

SAVE THIS DATE IN YOUR DIARY!!!!

DISTRICT ATHLETICS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11TH 2016

YEAR 4 – 6

A team of fifty students from Year 4, 5 and 6 will participate in the Narre Warren District Athletics at Casey

Fields Regional Athletics Centre, Cranbourne East. Several schools from the local area will compete in track

and field events. If successful some students will go on to compete at regional level.

Students who qualify to represent Trinity will be notified this week. Please keep this date free in your

diary as we would appreciate parent support on the day.

Catrina Charman

Physical Education Teacher

SENIOR INTERSCHOOL SPORT

FRIDAY 29th JULY 2016

Trinity will be playing against St. Catherines at Berwick South (Melway Ref: 131 B6) with games

commencing at 1pm.

Please note: As Trinity’s oval is now complete all home games are now played at Trinity.

If you are able to help in any way with coaching, umpiring or scoring, when Trinity is

playing a home game, please contact the office or your child’s teacher.

Please note that you must have a current Working With Children card.

CHOICE THEORY

Meeting the needs of our students in the classroom

Children are the same as adults. If their basic needs are not met, they will not be

motivated to learn. Who cares about verbs when you are hungry? Who wants to do math games when you are lonely or scared? And how can you be expected to take ownership of

your learning if you are never allowed to make a decision?

William Glasser states that everything we do is an attempt to fulfill one or more of our basic needs.

At school, students feel pleasure and experience success when their basic needs are met and frustration

when they are not. At least half of today’s students do not commit themselves to learning if they find their

school experience boring, frustrating, or otherwise dissatisfying. This is often when misbehaviour occurs and

why it is essential for teachers to make school adequately interesting and satisfying to their students’ needs.

Teachers however cannot “make” students do anything; they can only influence them to do things that will

lead to better behaviour and increased success.

Glasser believes that motivation is the key ingredient in learning and that quality learning will be evident

when students become able to demonstrate/ explain how, why, and where their learnings are valuable.

One way teachers can ensure that quality learning is present is by ensuring that the 5 Basic Needs are met.

Survival needs are met when the school environment is kept safe and free from personal threat.

Students sense belonging when they receive attention from the teacher and others and participate

actively in class.

Students sense power when the teacher asks them to participate in making decisions about topics to

be explored and procedure for working in class or assigns them responsibility for class duties.

Students experience fun when they are able to work and talk with others, engage in interesting

activities and share their accomplishments.

Students sense freedom when the teacher allows them to make responsible choices concerning what

they will learn, how they will do so, and how they will demonstrate their accomplishments.

The staff at Trinity are committed to nurturing and educating 100% of the students 100% of the time. Their

collaborative planning ensures that the needs of all students are met in a warm and safe environment and

opportunities are provided for each student to take ownership of their learning. The students experience and

celebrate success at their own level and are encouraged to become life- long learners. This is what

education is ultimately all about.

Kathryn Pepper – REL/ Student Support

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS Class Masses this term will be replaced with liturgies while Fr James is on leave.

We warmly invite all families to attend the liturgies which will be held at 9am each

Friday. Please refer to the front page of the newsletter for more details.

Fr John Readman’s 60th Anniversary of Ordination On Friday 22nd July the Social Justice Leaders (Dylan, Shanaya and Aimee) had the privilege of representing

Trinity at a special celebration for Fr John Readman at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish. Fr Readman was

the founding Parish Priest here in Narre Warren in 1979 and our School Hall is named in his honour. The

celebration acknowledged his amazing achievement of 60 years as a priest. Mass was co celebrated by Fr

Readman, Fr Brendan, Fr James and Deacon Peter. It was a lovely celebration and a memorable occasion for

all.

Kathryn Pepper - REL / Student Support

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM – TERM 3 FIRST COMMUNION CELEBRATIONS Sat 27th Aug @ 6pm and Sun 28th Aug @ 11am

CONFIRMATION PARENT ONLY ENROLMENT NIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT Thurs

28th July at the Church @ 7:15 for a 7:30pm start. On the night there will be a $50 sacrament fee

that will need to be paid.

CONFIRMATION STUDENT REFLECTION DAY Wed 10th August @St Francis Xavier Beaconsfield

CONFIRMATION WORKSHOPS Mon 15th to Thurs 18th August @ 5 pm or 7pm

CONFIRMATION CELEBRATIONS Fri 2nd @7:30, Sat 3rd @ 10am and 2pm, Sun 4th

Sept@ 3pm

More information will be provided about these days at the enrolment night.

Items in bold type will be

school closure days or

extremely important dates.

SCHOOL CALENDAR blue will indicate new

items added to the

Calendar that week.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2

7.30pm

Confirmation

Enrolment

3 4 5

Year 6 Interschool Sport

6 7

8

7pm P&F

Meeting

9 10 11

District

Athletics Years

4—6

12

Year 6 Interschool

Sport

13 14

15 SCHOOL

CLOSURE DAY 5pm OR 7pm

Confirmation

Workshop

16

Prep Excursion

Traffic School

5pm OR 7pm

Confirmation

17

Prep Excursion

Traffic School

5pm OR 7pm

Confirmation

18

5pm OR 7pm

Confirmation

Workshop

19

Year 6 Interschool

Sport

20 21

22

7pm Carnival

Meeting

23 24 25

7pm Board

Meeting

26 Year 6 Interschool Sport

27

6pm First

Eucharist

Celebration

28

11am First

Eucharist

Celebration

29 30

Father’s Day

Stall

31

AUGUST 2016

SEPTEMBER 2016

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2

7.30pm

Confirmation

Mass

3

10am & 2pm

Confirmation

Mass

4

3pm

Confirmation

Mass

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

25

Prep Incursion

“Seaweed

Sally”

26 27 28 7.15pm

Confirmation

Enrolment &

Parent Only

Workshop at

OLHC

29 Year 6 Interschool Sport

30

6pm

Confirmation

Enrolment

Mass

31 9.15am,

11am &

6pm

Confirmation

Enrolment

Mass

JULY 2016

ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL

In the case of illness a phone call in the morning on the day they are

absent.

If you are going on holidays or your child will be away for an extended

period you must advise in writing BEFORE you leave.

Thank you.

All parents/Guardians wishing to help in the classroom,

canteen or attend excursions MUST have completed the

PARENT HELPER WORKSHOP and hold a current WORKING

WITH CHILDREN CARD.

Further details are available from the school office. All parent/guardian

helpers must sign in at the office before proceeding to the classrooms.

Your current Working with Children card must be displayed at all times

when working in the classrooms and attending excursions.

A reminder to all Parents/Carers, supervision by School Staff

begins at 8.30am before school and after school only at the drop

off area until 3.30pm.

Please observe and supervise your children, as they play on the

equipment.

Thank you for your co-operation

TRINITY CAR PARK ETIQUETTE For greater safety and visibility, we are requesting that all

drivers reverse park into the marked bays.

Thank you all who use the pedestrian crossing area. You are

demonstrating to your children correct road safety practices. Once children cross the pedestrian crossing into the parking

area, they, for their safety, need to be placed into vehicles

promptly. The car park is NOT a meeting area.

The lane around the edge of the car park (closest to the oval)

are for vehicles waiting to pick children up from the Pick-up

Zone ONLY.

The two parking bays closest to the office path are the PICK-

UP ZONES. These are NO STANDING zones. If your children are not ready to get into your car as you pull up to

the pick-up zone, you must continue on and rejoin the end of

the pick-up queue.

There is NO RIGHT TURN when exiting the car park. All

vehicles must turn left for the safety of others and to maintain

traffic flow.

THE GATES CLOSE AT 9.00am AND RE-OPEN AT 3.00pm.

Occasionally they might re-open slightly later due to school

activities.

Thank you for your patience and consideration of others.

SCHOOL BOARD

board@trinitynarre.catholic. edu.au

Ex-officio:

Fr. Brendan Hogan

Principal

Simon Dell’Oro

School Representative:

Maria Scarton

Georgegina Nettleingham

Parish Representative:

Denise Ryan

Pastoral Coordinator:

Sister Joy

Chairperson: Scott McLardie

Secretary: Lisa Ferracane

P & F Rep: Lisa Ferracane

Parent Representatives:

Tania Johnson

Michael Locandro

Claudia Sajeba

OUR LADY HELP OF

CHRISTIANS PARISH

496 Princes Hwy

Narre Warren 3805.

Phone-9704 7935

Fax – 9704 7023

Parish Priest

Fr. Brendan Hogan

Assistant Priest

Fr. James Fernandez

Permanent Deacon

Rev Peter Stringfellow

Pastoral Associates

Conny James

Sacrament Co-ordinator

Emily D’Sylva

Mass Times

Saturday- 6.00pm

Sunday– 8.00am, 9.15am

11.00am & 6.00pm

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday 12noon – 3.30pm

Tues-Friday 9.00 - 3.30pm

Happy Birthday to the following children who will celebrate their birthdays next week.

1st AUGUST Amelia

3rd AUGUST Jordan and Emily

4th AUGUST Elora

6th AUGUST Olivia

7th AUGUST Romeo, Tyler and Hailey

CANTEEN ROSTER TUESDAY — PREP and JUNIOR

THURSDAY — MIDDLE and SENIOR

+ 8.45—10.30approx # 11.45—1.30approx

THURSDAY 28th JULY TUESDAY 2nd AUGUST THURSDAY 4th AUGUST

+ Jo Knezevic + Walter Burston + Mareesa Smith

# Daniela Cini # Anastasia Barker # Leonie Kelly

TUESDAY 9th AUGUST THURSDAY 11th AUGUST TUESDAY 16th AUGUST

+ Stacey Gordon + Andrea MacIntosh + Rebecca Lee

# Linda Vozzo # Kerryn Cerchiaro # Adele Pettenuzzo

PARISH PRIEST’S CORNER

One of the great privileges of belonging to a parish community is the many and varied

celebrations that take place in the life of the parish. On Friday many in our community gathered to

praise God for the gift of Fr John Readman’s 60 years of priesthood. It was wonderful to see our

parish come together, children from our three primary schools, founding parishioners who started

the parish on February 16th 1981 and many parishioners who have joined us in the years since

February 1981.

Fr John remarked about how the many willing workers made life so vibrant in the early days of

OLHC parish. Thirty Five years has not dulled our spirit to give without counting the cost. On

Wednesday evening our master plan committee met with Law Architects. Our plans are coming to

completion and town planning signing off within the next week. It is an exciting time and one that

we praise God for that we are able to make these significant changes to our buildings.

In our Gospel this weekend Jesus urges his disciple to pray and to be persistent in prayer. We children of God often pray and wonder why our prayers are not answered perhaps our prayer needs to be for growth in trust of the slow work of God who is bringing about the kingdom through

our love of parish. Fr Brendan

OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS PARISH

Diocese of Sale

Ph: (03) 9704 7935 Fax: (03) 9704 7023

Email: olhc@olhc.org.au

OLHC KIDS SPACE

Each number represents a letter of the alphabet. Substitute the correct letter for the numbers to reveal the coded

words.

PASTORAL CARE NEWSLETTER 27th JULY 2016

WE PRAY FOR: Miss Donna Johnson and the others attending World Youth Day;

those Mothers expecting babies; those parents undergoing treatment for Cancer; those awaiting the results of tests; for the needs of all our Families, for those who

have died in France and Turkey recently and for the builders working on the renovations to our school.

WINTER CRAFT STALL is located in the foyer of Reception. Scarves, hats, umbrella covers, wheat bags, children’s slippers (non- slip soles/washable),

adult slippers (washable), hot water bottle covers. Proceeds towards the Carnival Craft Stall.

BRIGIDINE ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT (BASP): is in urgent need of Tea, coffee, sugar, flour, tins of fruit, long life milk, disposable nappies, baby wipes

and toiletries for the people to whom they minister. If you can help in this way

please send them along to me and I will see they get to Port Melbourne as soon as possible. Thank You.

SCHOOL COOK BOOKS: ”A TASTE OF TRINITY” are available for $5.00 from the Office or from Sister Joy.

A PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE

Lord, we pray for the power to be gentle; the strength to be forgiving; the patience to be understanding; and the endurance to accept the consequences of holding on to what we

believe to be right.

May we put our trust in the power of good to overcome evil and the power of love to

overcome hatred.

We pray for the vision to see and the faith to believe in a world emancipated from violence, a new world where fear shall no longer lead people to commit injustice, nor

selfishness make them bring suffering to others.

Help us to devote our life, thought and energy to the task of making peace, praying always for the inspiration and the power to fulfil the destiny for which we were all created.

Amen

Hello everyone,

Father’s Day Stall: this will be our first fundraiser for this term and forms regarding this event will be coming home in the coming weeks. It is to be held

on Tuesday 30th August and we will be asking for extra helpers on the day

also in the lead up to the event.

Father’s Day Raffle: this raffle will be drawn at assembly on Friday 2nd

September. Forms and tickets for the raffle will be sent home in the coming weeks. We will also be very grateful for any new items that you are able to

donate to the raffle. Please leave them at the office.

DATES FOR THE DIARY

The fundraisers we have planned for the second half of the year are:

Term 3: Term 4:

- Father’s Day Stall: Tuesday 30th August - Student Disco Friday 14th Oct

- Father’s Day Raffle: Friday 2nd Sept (assembly) - Christmas Raffle

- Bunnings BBQ Saturday 1st October

Next P&F Meeting: Monday 8th August 2016 at 7pm in the Staffroom.

From your P&F Committee

Next P & F Meeting: Monday 8th

August 7pm in the Staffroom

30th August—Father’s Day Stall

2nd Sept — Father’s Day Raffle drawn

TRINITY PARENTS & FRIENDS

NEWSLETTER

Committee Members General Naomi Sanchez

President Kerryn Cerchiaro Anna Mangano

Vice President Chantal Fischer Carolyn Burge

Secretary Lisa Ferracane Natasha Ferreras

Asst Secretary Claudia Sajeba Melissa Yong

Treasurer Michelle Hofman Jessica McLardie

Asst Treasurer Marlene Johnson

Board Rep Lisa Ferracane Anastasia Barker

General Joanne Knezevic Sr Joy

Tania Johnson Nadia Abdel-Hamid

NO FURTHER DISCOUNTS APPLY. NO LAYBY. SALE EXCLUDES SALE ITEMS

NO EXCHANGE OR REFUND WILL BE GIVEN IF YOU SIMPLY CHANGE YOUR MIND.

23rd OCTOBER 2016 THE DATE IS FAST APPROACHING!

JUST OVER

12 WEEKS

TO GO!

CARNIVAL RAFFLE tickets Raffle books were sent home this week. The family who sells the most tickets will be

rewarded with free ride wristbands for each child in the family.

Additional raffle books are available from the Office.